PUNE: The police on Wednesday night arrested an administrative staffer of a college located in Shaniwar Peth for outraging the modesty of a student at the college.
According to an officer from Vishrambaug police station, the student reported the incident to her family members.
The enraged family members also caught the official at the college and blackened his face with ink.
The family members then took the official to the Vishrambaug police station in the evening, following which he was taken into custody, said an officer.
Senior police inspector Vijay Tikole of Vishrambaug police station said, “The administrative official on Wednesday afternoon had an interaction with the 18-year-old student on the college premises. Students enrolled in class 12 visit the college for their studies as well as work related to the administrative office.”
“On Wednesday, the administrative official asked the woman student about her studies and promised to increase her marks in the HSC examinations, especially marks related to internal tests. He then allegedly asked her some personal questions pertaining to her appearance and body,” he said.
“This enraged the girl and she left the college premises. Her family members rushed to the college,” he said.
“We registered the case under Sections 354 (outraging modesty of a woman) and 509 (insulting the modesty of any woman by words, sound or gesture) of the Indian Penal Code,” Tikole stated.
